SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1935
CHINA MAIL HOME SUPPLEMENT
Paris calling
Paul Rennet and Cie
Mode Elite
Mayo's
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The Hours Of Cards, Cocktails & Dinners
FOURS that have a
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very special signi- ficance; and dress, as ever, plays its part.
The tunic blouse of eggshell blue heavy crepe, worn over a floor- length svelte black crepe skirt, and emphasising the three-quarter length sleeve embroidered in opales cent beads is ideal for the hostess either for an afternoon bridge party, the cocktail party, or the bridge which may follow after din
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Points Worth Noting
The introdnction of lace in a rich Regency frill and cuffs, or canning- ly introduced into a yoke or sleeves, is right for the cocktail or bridge frocks. "The lace may also appear on your hat.
Bridge jackets will blossom in the.. spring. The field flower motif is charmingly exemplified in a black chiffon jacket with above-the-elbow
sleeves, entirely -petalled flowers.
sewn over with- The foundation
can be of black net, the big flowers in the brilliant poppy, corn-fower, and daisy, colours,
Earrings are more exotic tham ever, and match the bracelets with which they are worn. Chinese de signs are being used a great deal
Chiffons box-pleated from the waist down, are good and mostly worn with covering coats, full-back- ed
Cocktail hats are composed ea- tirely of flowers, and are brimless. They go in sets of hat and neck garland, or shoulder posy or fower bow.
Tiny bows are worn on either -ride of a aziddle part, sometimes-in platinum, sometimes showing on the hair with an off-the-face hat push- ed back halo-fashion.
Logical successor to the flowing line of the evening mode comes. The vorte for sculptured or floating "draperies." Instead of the flat, cut- on-the-cross evening frocks "that sheathe the figure to below the knees, the line of the newest even- ing frocks has undergone a mark- ed change. Bodices are draped, waists are draped, skirts are drap- ed and even where the slim, long line is adhered to, there are long filmy finely-pleated scarves falling from the shoulder, gossamer capes, or floating "angel" sleeves to give that feeling of flowing movement to the frock.
In their extreme form these dra- peries follow faithfully the full dignified sweep of the Indian wo- man's sari, enveloping the figure from shoulder almost to ankle in "looped swirls of gauzy filmy fabric. In more modified form they look as if they had been inspired by those pinned-up frocks that one sees draped on a model in a fabric show- case. The bodice is formed by a folded piece of material swathed horizontally across the bust and” then taken down to fall in a loose panel over the skirt. In these frocks there seems to be no place where the material is stretched fat to the figure. Bodices, are swathed and belts are swathed, the fabric is swathed again over the hips and then falls in voluminous folds to tite feet.
The Togue for swathing, of course, can be applied only to the finer and more pliant fabrics and the result is that many of the love- liest new evening frocks are made of chiffon and tulle and lace, of Indian silk muslin, jersey net and the very soft crepes.
But this is not to say that the heavier fabrics have no place in this. new line. They appear in many charming models, but their treat- ment is different. A more statues- que type of drapery is employed, and usually the line of the folding is vertical and not horizontal or diagonal
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OMETIMES
IT PAYS
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This is specially true in connection with the OPENING OF OUR NEW PREMISES in CHATER ROAD.
Here will be shown the newest and nicest Autumn deliveries in Ladies' fine Knitwear by Jaegers, Zam- brenes, Francis and Pearces. and lots of others whose fine productions ате portrayed in really nice. warmer wear.
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PAUL RENNET ET. CIE
190, Nathan Road,
Kowloon
York Building. Chater Road Hong Kong
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